'Peter Pan' soars into UCPAC-Rahway this Sunday

Confirmed adventure-seekers should report to Union County Performing Arts Center, 1601 Irving St., Rahway, this Sunday, June 8 for the 2 p.m., presentation of "Peter Pan" by TheatreWorks USA.

The production is based on the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s literary classic Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.

Tickets are $12 for all seats and available online at ucpac.org, by calling 732-499-8226 or in person at the Union County Performing Arts Center box office, 1601 Irving St., Rahway.

It’s fitting that modern audiences get the chance to see Peter Pan as a theatre piece, since the character first debuted in a stage play at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London, England in 1904 — seven years before author Barrie published the tale as a novel.

More than a century later, Peter Pan still enchants with its whimsy and wisdom